Blues in the Night

Director Anatole Litvak's follow-up to Out of the Fog, Blues in the Night is an undeniable tonal disaster, a hip, jazzy musical and good-time story about struggling musicians coming together around a shared vision, that runs headlong into an harrowing tale about obsessive…

sakana1

Released three weeks before Pearl Harbor, this little oddity never got the attention it deserved. A motley but talented group of musicians are thrown together by fate and start a Blues Band. They function, not unhappily, as starving artists, playing juke joints and…

julianblair

I knew very little about this movie that had been sitting on my noirs-that-need-watching list for quite a while. But I did know that it was billed as a combination musical and noir. Wait, what? That seems like an odd mix and I wasn't sure how you can even do that. How does…

D Rock

If someone asked me to categorize this into a movie genre I don't think I could. It's sui generis. I wasn't sure at the start, when Elia Kazan was chewing the scenery, that I was going to like this. The film is full of energy, but it soon turns from annoying to…

Leavingfilmstrk

“My mama done tol' me, when I was in knee-pants…” I’m probably rounding up a little bit, but the truth is I just loved discovering this little gem, which is a film noir with some jazz and a touch of the blues mixed in. It lacks major star power, but the casting is…

AntoniusBlock7

A Jazzbo Melodrama featuring a very unconvincing jazz group who appear to know only 2 songs. Stylish lighting and a 1st class Psychotic Dream sequence.

Allan Arkush

I have to say that after 30 minutes, I didn't hold out much hope for the quality of this film. What I saw was a group of starving buddies trying to form a jazz/blues band and traveling as stowaways on midwestern trains. The only argument in favor of the film was the acting…

Daniel Staebler

The small combo jazz and blues is great, Kay Grant (played by Betty Field) is trouble, and the dialog is sort of tough guy/gal corny.  Life in a band is never easy.  I guess this is a noir of sorts primarily because of Field’s femme fatale turn and that crazy visual…

Scotty Walter

A film noirish story set in the world of jazz music. I just loved the mood and atmosphere. I also loved seeing old favorites (Lloyd Nolan, Jack Carson) as well as new-to-me actors I want to see more of (Betty Field, Elia Kazan). I really liked the title song Blues in…

Kari